New chemical reaction aids drug manufacture

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 17:28 in Physics & Chemistry

Part of almost all the top 200 brand-name drugs is a nitrogen-containing ring-shaped structure that chemists call an 'N-heterocycle.' Manufacturing these drugs depends on the ability to synthesise N-heterocycles, but most synthesis reactions take a long time and produce toxic waste byproducts...

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